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compares the reporting by popular magazines in the 1940s to the reporting by these magazines before the 1940s. Whereas previously the publications featured articles on people in business and politics, in the 1940s the magazines began to report on the private lives of persons in the entertainment industry. The two elements being compared should be described clearly and in a parallel fashion. A.This sentence appears to misuse the in spite of idiom by using despite instead of spite. The use of despite is incorrect. Furthermore, although we can discern what the pronoun they is meant to refer to, the sentence would be easier to read if these publications were used in place of they. B.The word previously, which is misplaced in this sentence, should be between publications and featured, and perhaps preceded with had. The wording of the relevant portion of the sentence would thus be fact that these publications had previously featured. Furthermore, although we can discern what (or who) those in business and politics is meant to refer to, more specific wording would have made this phrase in the sentence easier to read. For example, we could substitute individuals for those. C.In this sentence, the phrase, there were those individuals featured in articles in business and politics is an assertion that individuals thus featured existed. Although we can guess that the writer would have meant to indicate that it was the magazines that were doing the featuring, the sentence fails to make this point clear. The sentence thus lacks clarity. D.This sentence may present an improvement over answer choices A–C, and would be more readable if the phrase those individuals they featured was made parallel with the corresponding portion of the other element of the comparison. For example, they featured those individuals would be parallel with popular magazines . . . began to report on the private lives of persons . . . It would also help if they were replaced with a more specific term such as the magazines. E.Correct. This sentence is clear and relatively easy to read.